totalitarian-of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life; totalitarian theory and practice; operating in a totalistic fashion.otalitarian. 1. Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority: authoritarian, autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical.
Photo gallery: The 1933 assassination of Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak. Eighty years ago this week, Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was shot in an assassination attempt on Franklin D. Roosevelt during an event in Miami, Fla., in 1933. Mayor Cermak would linger for weeks before succumbing to his injuries. Link to this photo.
Campaigning for president, Roosevelt was spared almost certain death when 50 pieces of paper slowed an assailantâs bullet headed for his chest. The first page of Theodore Roosevelt's speech that was damaged when a bullet tore through it. On October 14, 1912, just after eight oâclock in the evening, Theodore Roosevelt stepped out of the Hotel Gilpatrick in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and into an open car waiting to take him to an auditorium where he would deliver a campaign speech.